Every Christmas season we get
hit with the same old statement of "don't forget what Christmas is all
about," and too often we can respond with a less than
enthusiastic "yes, yes we know." Jesus can become that
"same old, same old" part of the season for us. He can be as ordinary to us as any other holiday tradition. And yet, Jesus was and is anything
but ordinary.
My wife and I have been reading
through an advent devotional by Paul Tripp called "Come, Let Us Adore
Him". It has been enlightening, convicting, thought-provoking, and
exhilarating, to say the least. One of the daily readings puts
it this way:
“If you had to
summarize the Christmas story with one word, what word would you choose? Now,
your word would have to capture what this story points to as the core of human
need and the way God would meet that need. Do you have a word in mind? ...
God’s response to the sin of people against his rightful and holy rule can be
captured in a single word. I wonder if you thought, “I know the word: grace.”
But the single word that captures God’s response to sin even better than the
word grace is not a theological word; it is a name. That name is Jesus. God’s
response wasn’t a thing. It wasn’t the establishment of an institution. It
wasn’t a process of intervention. It wasn’t some new divine program. In his
infinite wisdom God knew that the only thing that could rescue us from
ourselves and repair the horrendous damage that sin had done to the world was
not a thing at all. It was a person, his Son, the Lord Jesus.” - Paul Tripp
Oh come let us adore Him!
On Christmas Day and every day thereafter.
Merry Christmas!
